In 2006, Founder and CEO Kelly Boyer started PALETA in her kitchen by delivering clients healthy twists on haute cuisine with ingredients sourced from local farms, cruelty-free ranches, and responsible fisheries. A survivor of late stage terminal cancer, Chef Kelly has made it her mission to introduce the world to a healthier lifestyle through the convenience of daily home meal delivery.

After graduating with honors from the Le Cordon Bleu culinary arts program, Kelly decided to apply her cooking techniques to create more healthful fare. Friends started asking her to cook for them, then referred her to their friends, relatives, physicians, personal trainers, and her passion project became her life's calling. Before PALETA, she graduated with honors from Northwestern University's masters program in Business and Organizational Development, was a Human Resources executive at a few large companies, but focused almost exclusively on the entrepreneurial aspects of each of those businesses. Go figure!

She experienced a life-changing event when diagnosed with a rare advanced form of terminal ovarian cancer at the age of 21 With the love and support of family and friends, she beat it and it changed the course of her life forever. Learning to focus more on body and mind and overall health, enjoying the everyday experience of total body fitness translated very well to HR because she found joy working to improve the overall conditions and experience of whatever work environment she was in, and thus the results! PALETA believes we distinguish ourselves by constantly raising the bar on our standards of ingredients and product profiles for all offerings to our clients. Home to Southern California's first certified green kitchen, PALETA has become a positive force from coast to coast!

"As a result of my cancer diagnosis and subsequent surgeries and chemotherapy, I lost the ability to have children. While I am extremely fortunate that radical treatments and surgeries saved my life, the reality that I would not be able to give birth caused a lot of mourning, grieving and feelings of loss for me over the years. It was only until someone special said to me, "Trees were created for many reasons. Some are intended to bear fruit. Others are intended to provide shade. Go into this world and provide shade and care to those who need it." It forever changed me and is what drives me in my life and business. The deep satisfaction I feel when my clients' lives are improved through a healthier lifestyle via PALETA is the nurturing I thought I would miss out on. I am only grateful."

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